Art of heeling shoes



SpL 22, 1925. 1,554,312.

I G. E. WARREN ART OF HEELING SHOES Filed Aug. g3, 1923 omit certain of them or to change the order of their performance within certain limits, one of the most important of which is that the breast face of the base be produced prior to the attachment of the base to the shoe, in order to avoid. the difficulties incident to breasting and scouring the breast of the base after attachment,

One manner in which the method of the present invention may be satisfactorily performed is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 shows a conventional rubber heel base in the rough;

Fig. 2 shows the same heel base after it has been compressed and breasted and the breast scoured.

Fig. 3 is a View in side elevation showing the heel base of Fig. 2 assembled with a rubber top section;

Fig. 4 shows the assembled heel of Fig. 3 attached to a shoe; and

Fig. 5 shows the attached heel after the breast of the rubber section has been scoured to the breast of the base section.

In practising the method of the present invention a heel base is first operated upon to produce a final surface upon part or all of its edge. The heel base shown in Fig. 1 is typical of a form of base which is in common use and consists of a lift 10 of leather or similar material having a rand 12 secured thereto. The edge of the rough heel base is often more or less uneven as illustrated in Fig. 1. As shown in Fig. 2, the breast face 14 of the heel base has been shaped and smoothed to the final form which it is to have in the finished shoe. This forming may be effected in anysuitable manner; for example, the base may be compressed and breasted, and the breast may be scoured in the usual manner with sand paper or similar abrasive material. lVhile the most perfect results are secured by compressing, breasting and scouring the breast face 14, one or more of these operations may, in some instances, be omitted or the order in which they are performed may be changed. For example, an article may be produced by compression alone, which is sufliciently perfeet to permit it to be scoured directly with out making the intermediate breasting cut, or a sufliciently perfect surface may be produced by the breasting knife to make it unnecessary to scour. Under some circumstances, it may be preferred to breast the heel base before it is compressed. Other possible variations will occur to those skilled in the art, the essential feature being that the final breast surface which the heel base is to have in the finished shoe be formed before the base is attached to the shoe. It should be understood that the term final surface, as used here and elsewhere in this specification and the appended claims, means not have to be scoured on the shoe.

that all cutting, scouring, or other forming operations have been performed, and does not necessarily imply that any of the socalled finishing operations, such as blacking or polishing, have or have not been performed. As will be readily perceived, the object which is being sought is to eliminate the breast surface forming operations after the attachment of the heel to the shoe.

The breasted base section is next attached to the heel seat end of the shoe in any suitable manner, for example, by the usual method of nailing, together with the top section 16 of the heel. In the accompanying drawings the top section,16 is illustrated as a rubber half heel of a type which is in common use. The heel base and the top section 16 are attached with their breast faces in approximate alinement but the breast of the top section preferably overhangs slightly, as shown at 18, to provide for a subsequent scouring of the breast of the top section to cause it to form a smooth, continuous surface with the breast 14 of the base. Fig. 3

shows the base and top section assembled in proper relation off the shoe. The heel thus assembled may be attached to the shoe at a single nailing but it is within the scope of the invention to assemble the top section and the base directly upon the shoe or first to attach the base to the shoe and then to attach the top section, as long as approximate alinement of the breast faces of the two sections upon the shoe is secured.

The attached heel, as shown in Fig. 4, is

now ready for the operations of trimming the side edges of the base, scouring the said edges and scouring the breast of the top section. These operations may be performed in the order described or in any other convenient order. For example, the side edges of the base may be trimmed and scoured before the base is attached to the shoe, and the corresponding edges of the top section may be scoured to the edges of the base in the same way as is done with the breast. An important advantage is derived from the fact that there is no operation to be performed upon the attached heel with a heel breasting knife, with its attendant difficulty in respect to damaging the outsole 20; and that part of the heel breast which it is diificult to scour satisfactorilynamely, the breast face 14 of the heel base-has its final surface and does The scouring of the breast face of the top section 16 is easily and conveniently guided by the previously formed breast face 14 of the base and, if the two sections of the heel have been assembled with a rather close approximation to alinement of their breast faces, only a very small amount of scouring of the breast of the rubber top section is required to pro duce a smooth, continuous breast face upon the heel as a whole.

While the accompanying drawings show a heel with a rubber top section, it is to be understood that the improved method of the present invention is applicable to multi-section heels in which the top section is made of leather or any other material which can be scoured or otherwise formed into a continuation of the adjacent surface of the base section. r

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is 1. That improvement inthe art of heeling shoes which comprises forming a final surface upon an edge of a heel base, assembling said base with a heel top section with corresponding edges of the two sections in approximate alinement, attaching the assembled heel to a shoe, and thereafter finishing the edge of the top section to the said final edge surface of the base. i

2. That improvement in the art of heeling shoes which comprises forming a final sur face upon an edge of a heel base, attaching the base and a heel top section to a shoe with corresponding edges of the two section in approximate alinement and thereafter forming the edge surface of the top section into a continuation of the corresponding edge surface of the base.

3. That improvement in the art of heeling shoes which comprises forming a final breast surface upon a heel base, attaching the base and a heel top section to a shoe with their breast faces in approximate alinement, and finishing the breast face of the top section to the said final breast surface of the base.

4. That improvement in theart of heeling shoes which comprises breasting a heel base, attaching said base and a heel top section to a shoe with their breast faces in approximate alinement, the breast face of the top overhanging slightly the breast face of the base, and forming the breast face of the top section into a continuation of the breast face of the base.

5. That improvement in the art of heeling shoes which comprises compressing a heel base, breasting said heel base, attaching said base and a heel top sectionto a shoe with their breast faces in approximate alinement, and scouring the breast face of the top section to the breast face of the base.

6. That improvement in the art of heeling shoes which comprises forming a. final breast surface upon a heel base, assembling said base with a heel top section with the breast faces of the two sections in approximate alinement, attaching the assembled heel to a shoe, and finishing the breast of the top section to the finished breast of the base.

7. That improvement in the art of heeling shoes which comprises compressing a heel base, breasting the said base, scouring the breast face of the base, assembling the base with a rubber top section with the breast faces of the base and top section in approximate alinement, the breast of the top section projecting slightly beyond the breast of the base, attaching the assembled heel to a shoe, and scouring the breast of the rubber section to the scoured breast face of the base.

8. That improvement in the art of heeling shoes which comprises compressing a heel base and forming a final, breast surface thereon, attaching said base and a rubber top section to a shoe with the breast faces of the base and top section in approximate alinement, and scouring the breast of the top section to the breast face of the base.

9. That improvement in the art of heeling shoes which comprises breasting a heel base, assembling with the breasted base a rubber top section with the breast faces of the base and top section in approximate alinement but with the breast of the top section'extending slightly beyond that of the base, attaching the assembled heel to a shoe, and scouring, the breast of the top section to the breast of the base section.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

GEORGE E. WARREN. I 

